“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

I love ‘Harry Potter’ and JK Rowling – don’t laugh at me!

You can’t really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.